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In the last days I recognise some emails about Tickets for PSB@ROH which I THINK could be a money trap. After we have to hold this email open for user requests and alerts via the contact link (at the...
I know yesterday (13th March) was the first time a new PSB track had been played in ages, but (as per the long standing forum rules) in future all public requests for copies of any new track, PSB or otherwise, will be deleted and/or threads containing requests closed. We will officially...
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Thank you for the link leesmapman. I was already aware of them and found the last one does not include the first song they played (the Blur song Girls and Boys (PSB Remix)). For some reason it has been omitted from the youtube recording hence why I asked if anyone has their own recording.
What the fark?!?! Christ on a bike in an ill advised tight leather outfit!?!?
What the hell is going on?
Elton John manages to sound like The Village People. All of them at once. The beat goes 'Boom! Boom! Boom!' in a really rather embaressingly cheesy manner, whilst shooting, spasmodic synth...
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Wasn't this another leftover from the Popart Era? Would have probably worked better if they used Dusty's vocals to create a duet Nat "King" Cole Style.
Elton John + PSB = :down:
Thought I'd start this as there is sure to be a lot of conversation about the show!
It is on tonight on Channel 4 here in the UK at 23:05.
It's past my bedtime so I've stuck it on tape - how can something potentially so brilliant follow the dirge that is Big Brother and Desperate Housewives?! :?...
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Unlike matey from The Killers who, in spite of constantly referencing them in interview, clearly hadn't heard a PSB song since about 1988 and appeared to have just been confronted with the English language for the first time ever.
:lol: :lol: Classic!
If the singles represent the album, we've already had the political (I'm with stupid - cleverly released before Blair resigns) and we're getting the disco (Minimal) so that leaves the more sombre side of the album to plunder, and, assuming Numb is no-go, then Luna gets my vote.
In...
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Well I most certainly hope it won't be. What single potential would *that* track have compared to some of the other gems on the album?! Naught, nil, zilch.
...you listened to IN PRIVATE (Stuart Crichton Club Mix).
Ugh... that's some sweaty chested cheese.
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It's pretty poor. Hasn't it been banging around for a few years now? Pete Gleadall listed it on his website, iirc, a long time ago as something he'd worked on. (Not by name, it was just credited at an EJ / PSB collaboration -- at the time, speculation on the board was that it was a version of...
Anyone gotten theirs yet or gotten a shipping confirmation? I'm starting to get pissed.
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No man... I got ISM from Tower yesterday and the regular album from Tower the day before. Thay had a ton of Fundamental on Thursday but couldn't tell me when their 17 ISMs were coming. ...turns out they cam the next day. Oh well, the money goes to a good cause. :-)
I (as a citizen of the Czech Republic and European Union) just wanted to say that it's quite embarassing that iTunes uses 20 years old Cold War borders to disqualify potential buyers from the "wrong side".
I'd say it would be perfectly fair for everyone to have a chance to personally obtain...
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Fortunately I have accounts in both the US and the UK so I was able to get them. But I suspect when the album is released in the US next month the tracks will be available here as well.
They've been on TV, radio and even the local cinema all week where I live, and in the newspapers. I believe that they aren't touring Spain AGAIN. 'Too intense and bull killers' were the reasons stated.
Also Minimal was going to be brought forward to May 15th but because of ongoing promotion of...
i'm sure that most of you have already thought of this, but if as seems likely - fingers crossed - integral gets a single release, what could be better than having fugitive as a double A side?
integral is about ID cards; fugitive - we all assume - is about suicide bombers. the latter helped create...
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Minimal and Fugitive would be very nice to put together.
Ok, Fugitive is released on Fundamentalism, but it is a remix, so Minimal and a b-side with a 7 inch version of Fugitive is possible.
The opinions here on the forum say that Fugitive deserves more than only to be on Fundamentalism, and I do...
However unbelievable that may seem, I have been invited by Czech Television to be interviewed about PSB, to be used in a reportage about them (on the occassion of their performance on one summer festival here). :boo:
Now I'm obviously totally ill at ease, shivering and everything (Wayne, what was...
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You should expound on how New York City boy is one of the greatest works of Western civilisation and shames Michelangelo for only managing to paint a ceiling. You danced to it in 1999 and haven't stopped dancing yet. Since we met on our first date.
OK, for me they sometimes seem to me like 'parents'
because I don 't have ones and sometimes I need to
lean on 'someone' positive which mite be 'rather na -
tural' and it's very important to have some 'positive
role model' in your life even if not around ... esp. if
you 're...
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Just imagine if PSB were here. I would run after them all the time.
Chris gives thanks for the North Sea every day of his life.
They´ll come here sooner or later.
I have suddenly realised that the minimal (!) presentation and the dominance of black makes me start off less well disposed towards this album than, say, the...
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Actually the hats are Victorian top hats as Neil told Ross on Radio 2, but I can sort of see Neil and Chris in 1666 London at the front of a horse and carriage shouting out 'bring out your dead'.
Release : Home and dry
Disco 3 : Time on my hands
Very : Postscript
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Fundamental ???
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He may also be one of the voices saying "Minimal" in the chorus of said tune... or maybe it's just Trevor Horn doing that (he's credited with additional vocals).
Anyone knows how many copies of Fundamental/Fundamentalism CDs are there? Are there any rules governing the number of copies a "limited" or "special" edition should be?
Just wondering since a number of online sites like Play.com and HMV have already ran out of the limited editions and it is on...
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Here in Bangkok there are loads of the 'special edition' Release CDs in the shops all over, with the bonus disc, 399 Baht (around 6 GBP)
You were sitting close to him
Staring in each other's eyes
From one point of view, it might be understood like this:
You were sitting close to him
(and YOU were) staring in each other's eyes
- which obviously would be a nonsense (it would have to be "staring in...
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The "ellipsis" scenario usually would be that a word or phrase was left out and you have to mentally put it back in, but it's hard to figure out what the missing words would be while still keeping the words in the same order.
Well, as I indicated above, I - as non-English speaker - would figure...
Everywhere in Leicestershire has sold out of the 2CD edition. I couldn't find any in Loughborough yesterday, and I couldn't find any in Leicester today :o
I finally picked up my copy of Fundamental today (actually, 2 copies!). I already had some fairly decent-sounding mp3s, but the sound-quality of the actual CD was on a whole different level. It's quite stunningly produced: deep powerfull bass, and a large and detailed soundscape. It sounds fabulous...
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It's fantastic with earphones on. Although there is a sound that appears in both I made my excuses and Indefinate that anoys me. I'll post the exact times of the songs when i make some effort and put the cd on.
Dave
In Indefinite I get a weird resonant noise when it's played via my car stereo;...
I bought Fundamental+ism today and took it to work so I could listen to it. Later, on my way getting my jacket and going home I put the CD on a couch while putting on my shoes.
Someone picked it up and asked: is this recent? I said: released this monday, here on friday. Then he said, oh, they are...
Just wanted to let you know that there is going to be a psb party in Barcelona. It will be held at a very nice club called Sweet café. It will be on May 22, from 23 h on.
We are going to celebrate that Fundamental is out (by then) and that we love the Pet Shop Boys. The dj's (ahem)...
You'd think a company affiliated wth the official site would be able to supply an order in a timely fashion wouldn't you?
I did leave it a bit late to order (last Thursday dinner time) but I'm bitterly disappointed that my order for the double CD Fundamental is still 'Pending' with no mention of...
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CD wow baby gets here on time every time unlike HMV
OK, I understand the words when they stand alone. But it seems to me that "feel at stumbling" is an idiomatic phrase... (it makes no sense otherwise).
Pease can someone clarify the literal meaning of it?
Thanks.
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Another glorious lyric comes from Luna Park: "Fortune tellers muse on palms that bode bad news..." Magnificently conceived. You don't get that kind of thing from Beyonce Knowles.
Exactely. :wink:
that is a f^(ing fantasticaly great lyric in fact that whole song is just great!
Has anyone else noticed that Fugitive is maybe the only PSB song where the title is not sung in the song itself? (I may be wrong though and there may be one other song where the same happened, but I really don't recall now.)
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On the subject of lyrics, those to My Head Is Spinning (on the official site) are great!!
My head is spinning
My head is spinning
My head is spinning
My head is spinning
My head is spinning
My head is spinning
My head is spinning
My head is spinning
My head is spinning
Neil's feelings towards his country, the UK?
I thought so cause I heard something like that in an interview, but so many say other things.
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As for the song, I think the metaphor is a little forced.
I think it's a gorgeous sentiment - the brass band at the beginning redolent of angry Sixties playwrights and cups of tea - before being undercut by Napoleon Blair's (as Drico so eloquently puts it) myopic assault on individuality.
There was once a time in my halcyon student days where I scatter-gunned the Dotmusic/Hostboard/S*y fora (one of my most irritatingly affected signature terms) with weekly rants that caused consternation/amusement/bitterness/indifference amongst the good burgers (sic) of this cybernetic PSB world. I...
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Heh, as much as I hate to admit it, I've missed those brill rants of yours. :P
I've always been the love that dare not speak its name.
For me 'Minimal' IS the best single the Pet Shop Boys will release since Always On My Mind. An over-reaction ? I don't think so, it is such a beautiful, YES BEAUTIFUL SUMMER SONG.
Put simply, it SOUNDS GORGEOUS. I haven't felt this rather GORGEOUS SUMMER FEELING since New Order released the...
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Minimal is a TUNE.
Every radio station everywhere should play it.
Even metal ones, classical and ones that dont play music.
NEW 5 WE DON'T NEED TO WHISPER ANGELS & AIRWAVES 12,504
NEW 6 FUNDAMENTAL PET SHOP BOYS 12,503
2 7 BROKEN BOY SOLDIERS RACONTEURS 9,046
:D Number 6 and looks pretty safe there, although as always PSB sales can sometimes dip on the weekend. I'm with stupid didn't fall much though so I'm hopeful the album wont.
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Number 5 would be AMAZING!
I want the boys to get at least a Gold disc for the wall of Neil's palatial Country sprawl.
They did a show called "Kassettendeck" for german radio station Eins Live , where pop stars or celebreties can choose a few of their favourite tracks at the moment.
Look here:
The text is in german but the audio-files are Neil and Chris.
They choose:
Mandy vs. Booka Shade --> Body language...
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They choose:
Gnarls Barkley --> Crazy
The Killers --> Mr. Brightside (Think white duke Remix)
Madonna --> Sorry (PSB Maxi-Mix)
Ladytron --> Destroy everything you touch
No surprize! 8) I was addicted to "DEYT" some three months ago or so. A good one.
Just downloaded "Crazy"...when it's so...
A lot of dance music is just about mindless hedonism. And that's OK; in fact, a lot of it probably should be. But Pet Shop Boys, thankfully, are a regular reminder that it doesn't have to be.
Take Fundamental. The title of this ninth studio album from Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe might suggest...
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Here's another one from Canada:
It’s been four years since the last proper Pet Shop Boys album, a surprisingly acoustic affair titled Release. Although the songs were very strong ("London" comes to mind), Release lacked the traditional disco stompers that has become the Pets’ trademark since their...
In the German magazine the boys give an interview. Here are the interesting facts:
- "I made my excuses and left" was partly inspired by Cynthia Lennon seeing John with Yoko. Another inspiration came from some composition by Gavin Bryar
- Neil and Chris decide about the remixers (Wolgang Tillmans...
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"Another inspiration came from some composition by Gavin Bryar"
The piece is probably "Jesus Blood". Gavin found a tape of a tramp singing an old and off-beat Victorian hymn called "Jesus Blood (Never Failed me Yet)"... I think in a London subway. He then looped the tramp's voice (about a...
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